valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:54:37 +0300, alexhoppus said:
No, I just try to understand the process. I don't fully understand what is the role of independent developer in the process of submitting new drivers to LK. What I mean is - hardware device vendors always ship device driver with their products. In this case several options are available: 1.) HW vendor ships only closed-source drivers and is not interested to open source this work. 2.) HW vendor publishes device drivers to the community by himself 3.) HW vendor put the device driver sources to their website ready for downloading and building, but make no effort for integrating them to LK.
You missed one:
4.) HW vendor only ships a Windows or OSX client.
And another one: 5.) vendor independent class drivers IMHO perfect for the independent developer since there will be documentation available. The USB class specs are freely available for example. Bjørn